Road Wars Special Report on NBC LA Affiliate

Channel 4 in Los Angeles had a segment on its 11pm news this evening that, inflamatory, and misleading, trailer, and title ( ROAD WARS! ) aside, was a bit of a pleasant surprise in its treatment of cyclists.

It featured Monica Howe, the Outreach Co-ordinator of the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition, whom I have had the pleasure of meeting, and Mike Clark who works at KFI Radio, and also bike commutes, to present the Cyclist point of view ( The law says we can use the streets she says. It can be dangerous out there he says. ), with scenes of them in traffic, and an ignorant non-cyclist to say we all belong on the sidewalk !

What I especially liked was the discussion of expanding Class 1 Trails in LA COUNTY, like in Davis, the mention of using the LA River, and the little history lesson ( With photo! ), about the ancient "Bikeway" route, from Pasadena to LA, the Pasadena Bikeway, an elevated precursor of the freeway, for bicycles, in use in 1898.

It did not catch on way back when, and decades later became part of the Pasadena Freeway. ;-D

I know there's a lot we'd all have liked to see in the report, but hey, attention grabbing blurb, and title, aside, it was an okay piece in my view.